Role of the Navigator

Crystal Dugger offers an analysis of the main obstacles and the possible solutions to growing the professional field.
Claire White speaks to the need for nurse navigators to continue helping to break down the economic and social barriers that prevent all people from having equal access to advanced treatments.
Crystal Dugger states that oncology navigation is critical to the deployment of complex, value-based care.
Nurse Navigator Claire White talks about the barriers that block novel treatments from reaching certain patients and the need for patient advocacy.
Claire White addresses another aspect of care: helping patients gather resources to pay for their treatment.
Claire White discusses possible adverse effects that can occur during CAR T-cell therapy and what the nurse navigator should look for.
The nurse navigator needs to be involved from the very beginning in this complex therapy, says Claire White.
While asserting that it is not too late to make improvements to the cancer landscape, Co-Founder of the Biden Cancer Initiative Jill Biden, EdD, told a packed house at the Ninth Annual Navigation & Survivorship Conference that time is of the essence, and every minute counts.
Dr Morganna Freeman lists some of the ways navigators can help patients better understand their treatment and prepare them in case of adverse events.
Dr Morganna Freeman recommends that navigators develop a good triage system to effectively manage adverse events.